What is Web Hosting and Why Does My Blog Need 

In order for your blog or website to be accessed and seen by people it must have a piece ofvirtual land in which to reside.

Web servers can be thought of as the virtual land and through Web hostingis how you gain access to this land.

Technically speaking, Web hosting is a service provided by companies that offer a physical location on their servers for the storage of web pages and files (i.e. websites and blogs).  Web servers are the computer hardware that provides World Wide Web services on the Internet.

How about an analogy for further clarification.

Let’s say you are in the rental market looking for a place to live. When you choose to rent from a landlord, you simply pay monthly rent to the landlord who owns the property. In the Web hosting world, this would be akin to paying a web hosting company to rent space on their server in order to host your blog. Of course, renting is not all the same. Renting a place in an apartment complex can be vastly different than renting a single family home.

Now, we can categorize Web hosting into two groups; 3rd party hosting and self hosting.

Let’s go over some of the basic forms of Web hosting.

3rd party hosted blogs (Blogger, WordPress.com, Tumblr)

Blog publishing platforms such as Blogger’s Blogspot.com, WordPress.com (not to be confused with WordPress.org ) and Tumblr all use 3rd party hosting.

Part of the reason these services are all free is because your blog is on their servers. They, in fact, own your blog and you are simply borrowing space on their server to host your blog. This would be like crashing on your buddy’s couch. He may be kind enough to give you a place to sleep but if you wear out your welcome he can kick you out at anytime!

Advantages – 3rd party hosting is free and the publishing platforms that come with them are fairly straightforward and easy to use.

Disadvantages – Since you don’t own your blog and are merely borrowing space on their servers, you can get your blog deleted permanently for any reason. If you violate their terms and conditions ( some of these platforms don’t allow advertising) they can and will delete your blog without giving any notice.

These 3rd party hosted blogs also have limited capabilities and often times run into server issues and have extended downtimes.

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